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List:       koffice-devel
Subject:    Re: Question about your KPresenter's review
From:       David Faure <david () mandrakesoft ! com>
Date:       2002-02-12 10:09:38
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On Tuesday 12 February 2002 04:24, Catherine Olanich Raymond wrote:
> > > >  But since the UI needs to be improved first, as you noted
> > > > (same work as the one that was done on KWord, cleaning up menus and
> > > > toolbars), it'd be a better idea to do that first, before finishing the
> > > > documentation.
> > >
> > > I have mixed feelings about this.  I believe the UI needs to be improved.
> > >  On the other hand, KPresenter is out there *now*, and it does perform
> > > the basic tasks--if the user can only figure out how to do so.  Fixing
> > > the documentation first will give users incentives to try using
> > > KPresenter now. If you fix the program first, you may find that the users
> > > who might have been willing to give it a try have already given up on it.
> >
> > I don't think it's a good idea to write documentation about "a crippled
> > UI".
> 
> Did Eric refer to the UI as "crippled"?  I don't believe that I did. 

No, but that doesn't prevent me from doing it ;)

> I agree that there would be no reason to write documentation about a 
> "crippled UI" *if* the developers' intent was to completely redo the 
> UI--especially if the program were still in alpha test and few potential 
> users were going to run into the (soon to be discarded) "crippled" version.
> 
> However, it's not my understanding that a complete overhaul of KPresenter is 
> contemplated (if I'm mistaken, let me know!).  KPresenter is out there.  It's 
> available to users, and users are encountering it.  Users other than me, Eric 
> and Rob likely are having problems with it.  Some of those problems could be 
> lessened by improving the documentation.  Lessening those problems in that 
> manner would, I believe, create goodwill for KPresenter/KDE generally by 
> demonstrating the development team's interest in helping the program work 
> better for the users.

I certainly hope we can fix the UI before the next KOffice release.

-- 
David FAURE, david@mandrakesoft.com, faure@kde.org
http://people.mandrakesoft.com/~david, http://www.konqueror.org
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